Citations:goldgreed

English citations of goldgreed

1872, Ambrose Bierce, Nuggets and Dust: Panned Out in California, page 87:
... and a black cap shut out the goldgreed of his eyes for ever; when his ears, no longer lulled by the clink of dropping coins, were stung by the hisses of the brutal mob about.
1910, Ivan Calvin Waterbury, "Poetic Language", in Poet Lore, page 244:
Here is the key to William Morris's great epic of the fatality of the reign of goldgreed and the hatred born thereof, 'The Story of Sigurd the Volsung.' He wrought the Pan-Teutonic cycle in symbolical English, which gives only mystic implication of the cosmic allegory therein embodied.
1922, Canadian Bankers' Association, Journal of the Canadian Bankers' Association, page 347:
"It wasn't even goldgreed. It was — well, it was just 'bughouse,' that's all."
1923, Francis Lynde, Mr. Arnold: A Romance of the Revolution, page 171:
“The goldgreed will drive him, and his news is too big to keep. I'd give the best field of the Page tobacco lands to know if we are still in time to stop him.”

2020 September 28, Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, Grif: A Story of Australian Life, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
Cherished ambitions, life-dreams approaching to fruition, calm, peaceful ways of living, were all forgotten and forsaken in the fever of gold-greed, which spread itself through many lands. Over the waters came regiments of adventurers, […]